The ghost of the ‘Y’ : paternal DNA, haunting and genealogy

Based on a personal family history experience, in this paper, I consider the way in which genealogical DNA testing is revealing family secrets, in particular paternity secrets, which would previously have remained unknown via ‘traditional’ methods of genealogical research. Reasons for the displacement of these invisible fathers from the records are discussed, and the power of genealogical DNA testing to bring them into focus is examined. Such discoveries may disrupt and unsettle, causing people to think differently about the fathers and grandfathers with whom they have grown up or have believed to be part of their personal histories and, for some people, may challenge their sense of identity. Beyond personal identity issues, in this paper, I draw upon ideas about ‘ghost-work’ to suggest that these experiences have some of the features of hauntings and that the ghostly fathers who break through may speak to us about social realities and structures, beyond the confines of linear tim

Los hijos de la providencia: el abandono como circulación en el Chile decimonónico

La historiografía social latinoamericana recién está empezando a abordar el tema de la infancia, pero hay una dimensión histórica de la niñez que ya ha recibido la atención de los investigadores: el fenómeno de la infancia abandonada. Ya contamos con una amplia gama de estudios sobre el abandono de los niños y las casas de expósitos en Brasil, Chile, México y otros países.[1] Los historiadores han mostrado las proporciones masivas del abandono de niños y han ofrecido explicaciones acerca de por qué tantos niños fueron expuestos en establecimientos de beneficencia, quiénes fueron estos niños y cuáles fueron las consecuencias demográficas de estas prácticas. Los resultados de estos estudios no dejan de interesar y de sorprender

Existentialism Theory: Its Relation and Application to Contemporary Communication

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The Historian\u27s Craft

In historical research, as in riding the hounds, the search is often at least as much fun as the end of the chase. Galloping through journals, books, and archival sources in search of an unknown historical figure can be positively exhilarating, epecially when the hunt is replete with fale trails, British baronets, a mysterious princess, and multiple pseudonyms

Tacatacuru and the San Pedro de Mocamo Mission

Dr. William R. Bullard of the Florida State Museum and this author made an archeological survey of Cumberland Island, Georgia, in June 1970, primarily to locate prehistoric Indian village sites. An extensive shell midden area displaying Spanish and historic Indian ceramics was found, and a preliminary surface collection was made. In the next several weeks more samples of surface material were secured, and from these artifacts and from physical characteristics of the site, information regarding the historic and proto-historic aboriginal occupations of the island can be derived. It seems likely that this was the site of the Timucuan village of Tacatacuru, and if so, then it was also the location of the Spanish mission of San Pedro de Mocamo

Historic Notes and Documents: Frolicking Bears, Wet Vultures, and Other Mysteries: Amos Jay Cummings\u27s 1873 Description of Mounds in East-Central Florida

Among the collection of new papers recently donated to the University of Florida\u27s P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History by the family of Thomas and Georgine Mickler, owners for many years of Mickler Books, is a copy of a New York newspaper containing an important article about archaeological sites in Florida shortly after the Civil War

Revisiting the Freducci Map: A Description of Juan Ponce de Leon\u27s 1513 Florida Voyage?

For more than a century scholars have been aware of the Conte Ottomanno Freducci map believed to have been drafted in 1514-1515. Centered on the Atlantic Ocean with the west coasts of Europe and Africa shown, the map shows those parts of the Americas known to Europe by ca. 1514-1515, including coastal Newfoundland, the Bahamas and the Caribbean Islands, and the Caribbean and Atlantic coasts of South America from present-day Gulf of Venezuela east and southeast to northeastern Brazil (the latter not very accurately). The map also seemingly accurately renders portions of the Atlantic and lower Gulf coasts of Florida. Both the portion of Florida shown and the place names affixed there appear to correlate with the 1513 voyage of Juan Ponce de Leon as reported in Herrera’s account of that expedition first published in 1601

Stratified maternity in the barrio: Mothers and children in Argentine social programs

Are feminist goals and children's rights necessarily at odds? Diverse fields of academic practice have tended to respond in the affirmative. Scholarship ranging from the gender and development literature to feminist scholarship on carework and reproductive labor emphasize the tension between women and children embedded in social policy design, in which children represent a burden of care for their mothers. As feminists have noted, historical child welfare practices, and more recently the rhetoric of the "best interests of the child," have often undermined the interests of women. The children's rights literature has paid little attention to women's interests, which renders them invisible or, worse, actively obfuscates them, by treating women only as mothers. Feminists have noted how certain children's rights approaches emphasize the practical contradiction between children's care and women's autonomy and how certain child's rights approaches lead to anti-feminist postures.Fil: Llobet, Valeria Silvana. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Humanidades. Centro de Estudios Desigualdades, Sujetos e Instituciones; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Milanich, Nara. Barnard College; Estados Unido

La maternidad y las mujeres de sectores populares en las Transferencias Condicionadas de Ingresos: un aporte al debate sobre el cuidado y las relaciones de género

Este artículo enfoca específicas articulaciones, entre las desigualdades sociales y de género, alrededor del problema de la regulación estatal de las estrategias de sobrevivencia y el cuidado, a partir de examinar las relaciones entre beneficiarias, los miembros de sus familias y las comunidades, y cómo las TCI cambian, refuerzan o dan forma a estas relaciones sociales. El argumento central es que el énfasis en las mujeres en tanto madres, si bien permite visualizar una relación central al sometimiento de las mujeres, al mismo tiempo invisibiliza el hecho que la maternidad redunda en relaciones y redes sociales en el ámbito comunal. “Madre” no es meramente una identidad privada o familiar, sino que se expresa en espacios públicos y en relaciones sociales extrafamiliares.Fil: Llobet, Valeria Silvana. Universidad Nacional de San Martín. Escuela de Humanidades. Centro de Estudios Desigualdades, Sujetos e Instituciones; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Milanich, Nara. Columbia University; Estados Unido

Andres Bello and the Challenges of Spanish American Liberalism

Andrés Bello (1781-1865) is generally reckoned to be the foremost intellectual amongst opponents of the Spanish empire in the Americas after the Napoleonic Wars. This paper provides a synoptic account of Bello’s development as a scholar, politician and statesman from his early career as a servant of the crown in colonial Caracas, through his 19-year exile in London, to his prominent role in the institutional design and management of the young Chilean republic. The paper traces the historiographical treatment of Bello and the application of his cosmopolitan learning to the tasks of nineteenth-century state-building. It is suggested that his trajectory reflected a successful adaptation of liberal precepts to a conservative local social setting within a world order dominated by British promotion of free trad